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# TracingController

`public abstract class TracingController`
`extends Object` ``

java.lang.Object
↳ | android.webkit.TracingController

Manages tracing of WebViews. In particular provides functionality for the app to enable/disable tracing of parts of code and to collect tracing data. This is useful for profiling performance issues, debugging and memory usage analysis in production and real life scenarios.

The resulting trace data is sent back as a byte sequence in json format. This file can be loaded in "chrome://tracing" for further analysis.

Example usage:

     TracingController tracingController = TracingController.getInstance();
     tracingController.start(new TracingConfig.Builder()
                      .addCategories(TracingConfig.CATEGORIES_WEB_DEVELOPER).build());
     ...
     tracingController.stop(new FileOutputStream("trace.json"),
                            Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor());

## Summary

### Public constructors
`TracingController()` This constructor is deprecated. This class should not be constructed by applications, use `getInstance()` instead to fetch the singleton instance.

### Public methods
`static TracingController` | `getInstance()` Returns the default TracingController instance.
`abstract boolean` | `isTracing()` Returns whether the WebView framework is tracing.
`abstract void` | `start(TracingConfig tracingConfig)` Starts tracing all webviews.
`abstract boolean` | `stop(OutputStream outputStream, Executor executor)` Stops tracing and flushes tracing data to the specified outputStream.

### Inherited methods
From class `java.lang.Object`
`Object` | `clone()` Creates and returns a copy of this object.
`boolean` | `equals(Object obj)` Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.
`void` | `finalize()` Called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collection determines that there are no more references to the object.
`final Class<?>` | `getClass()` Returns the runtime class of this `Object`.
`int` | `hashCode()` Returns a hash code value for the object.
`final void` | `notify()` Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on this object's monitor.
`final void` | `notifyAll()` Wakes up all threads that are waiting on this object's monitor.
`String` | `toString()` Returns a string representation of the object.
`final void` | `wait(long timeout, int nanos)` Causes the current thread to wait until another thread invokes the `notify()` method or the `notifyAll()` method for this object, or some other thread interrupts the current thread, or a certain amount of real time has elapsed.
`final void` | `wait(long timeout)` Causes the current thread to wait until either another thread invokes the `notify()` method or the `notifyAll()` method for this object, or a specified amount of time has elapsed.
`final void` | `wait()` Causes the current thread to wait until another thread invokes the `notify()` method or the `notifyAll()` method for this object.

## Public constructors

### TracingController

    public TracingController ()

This constructor is deprecated.
This class should not be constructed by applications, use `getInstance()` instead to fetch the singleton instance.

## Public methods

### getInstance

    public static TracingController getInstance ()

Returns the default TracingController instance. At present there is only one TracingController instance for all WebView instances, however this restriction may be relaxed in a future Android release.

Returns
`TracingController` | The default TracingController instance. This value cannot be `null`.

### isTracing

    public abstract boolean isTracing ()

Returns whether the WebView framework is tracing.

Returns
`boolean` | True if tracing is enabled.

### start

    public abstract void start (TracingConfig tracingConfig)

Starts tracing all webviews. Depending on the trace mode in traceConfig specifies how the trace events are recorded. For tracing modes `TracingConfig#RECORD_UNTIL_FULL` and `TracingConfig#RECORD_CONTINUOUSLY` the events are recorded using an internal buffer and flushed to the outputStream when `stop(java.io.OutputStream, java.util.concurrent.Executor)` is called.

Parameters
`tracingConfig` | `TracingConfig`: Configuration options to use for tracing. This value cannot be `null`.

Throws
`IllegalStateException` | If the system is already tracing.
`IllegalArgumentException` | If the configuration is invalid (e.g. invalid category pattern or invalid tracing mode).

### stop

    public abstract boolean stop (OutputStream outputStream,
                    Executor executor)

Stops tracing and flushes tracing data to the specified outputStream. The data is sent to the specified output stream in json format typically in chunks by invoking `OutputStream.write(byte[])`. On completion the `OutputStream.close()` method is called.

Parameters
`outputStream` | `OutputStream`: The output stream the tracing data will be sent to. If null the tracing data will be discarded. This value may be `null`.
`executor` | `Executor`: The `Executor` on which the outputStream `OutputStream.write(byte[])` and `OutputStream.close()` methods will be invoked. This value cannot be `null`. Callback and listener events are dispatched through this `Executor`, providing an easy way to control which thread is used. To dispatch events through the main thread of your application, you can use `Context.getMainExecutor()`. To dispatch events through a shared thread pool, you can use `AsyncTask#THREAD_POOL_EXECUTOR`.

Returns
`boolean` | False if the WebView framework was not tracing at the time of the call, true otherwise.

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